December 2015 Highlights

Novels
1. A General Theory of Oblivion (trans. from the Portuguese by Daniel Hahn) (Archipelago, 2015) / José Eduardo Agualusa
2. Paradise City (Bloomsbury USA, 2015) / Elizabeth Day
3. The Baker’s Tale: Ruby Spriggs and the Legacy of Charles Dickens (Counterpoint, 2015) / Thomas Hauser
4. Avenue of Mysteries (Doubleday, 2015) / John Irving
5. Blood, Salt, Water (Little, Brown, 2015) / Denise Mina
6. Death by Water (trans. from the Japanese by Deborah Boliver Boehm) (Atlantic Books, 2015) / Kenzaburō Ōe
7. Sea of Glass (Valancourt Books, 2015) / Dennis Parry
8. The Verdict (Pegasus, 2015) / Nick Stone
9. The Age of Reinvention (trans. from the French by Sam Taylor) (Atria Books, 2015) / Karine Tuil
10. The Merman (trans. from the Swedish by Ellen Flynn) (Pegasus, 2015) / Carl-Johan Vallgren

11. Because She Never Asked (trans. from the Spanish by Valerie Miles) (New Directions, 2015) / Enrique Vila-Matas

First Novels
1. The Suicide of Claire Bishop (Dzanc Books, 2015) / Carmiel Banasky
2. The Burned Bridges of Ward, Nebraska (Little A, 2015) / Eileen Curtright
3. Belonging (Myriad Editions, 2015) / Umi Sinha

Stories
1. Arvida (trans. from the French by Donald Winkler) (Biblioasis, 2015) / Samuel Archibald

Poetry
1. The Selected Poems of Donald Hall (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015) / Donald Hall
2. Incorrect Merciful Impulses (Copper Canyon Press, 2015) / Camille Rankine
3. Shock by Shock (Copper Canyon Press, 2015) / Dean Young

Nonfiction
1. Alive, Alive Oh!: And Other Things That Matter (Granta Books, 2015) / Diana Athill
2. What Kind of Creatures Are We? (Columbia University Press, 2015) / Noam Chomsky
3. Why Only Us: Language and Evolution (The MIT Press, 2015) / Robert C. Berwick & Noam Chomsky
4. Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire (Faber & Faber/Random House, 2015) / Roger Crowley
5. In Wartime: Stories from Ukraine (Allen Lane, 2015) / Tim Judah
6. The City at Three P.M.: Writing, Reading, and Traveling (Dzanc Books, 2015) / Peter LaSalle
7. Life and Death in the Andes: On the Trail of Bandits, Heroes, and Revolutionaries (Simon & Schuster, 2015) / Kim MacQuarrie
8. The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine (Allen Lane/Basic Books, 2015) / Serhii Plokhy
9. Low Dishonest Decades: Essays and Reviews, 1980-2015 (Pressed Wafer, 2015) / George Scialabba
10. Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left (Bloomsbury USA, 2015) / Roger Scruton

11. Between Cultures: Europe and Its Others in Five Exemplary Lives (University of Pennsylvania, 2015) / Jerrold Seigel
12. This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan War (Thomas Dunne Books, 2015) / Samanth Subramanian